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9/25/2009 2:25:48 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/MNVU19SBEV.DTL&o=0

(just to set things straight so that nobody mistakes me for what i am not: this image only managed to capture my attention for a second. during the time it took me to open my posting application and paste my link i was overcome by curiosity and checked to see what "remoulade" was. then when the application opened i quickly pasted "remoulade" instead of the link... then i had to rethink the mental process which brought me to open the application in the first place because i was pretty sure it wasn't "remoulade". this proved to be a very difficult task because of the food images that flooded and still flood my psyche. anyhow, i believe the crowd you are seeing at the picture is waiting to be seated at its table at chez panisse)
9.14
9/14/2009 5:52:37 PM

People in my dreams have started to use English in order to converse with me. I think that this isn’t a new thing. Other Israelis in Berkeley are probably asleep concurrently and that’s why I am getting no guest performances of my compatriots.

 

Excuse me for this idiotic reflection.

 

Mugabe’s lesson to California.
9/12/2009 10:14:33 PM

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/world/africa/12briefs-Zimbabwe.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=mugabe%20prisons&st=cse

Isn’t it swell? Robert Mugabe can show California the light. You can call him inhumane all you like but this guy certainly knows how to relieve HIS prisons when he needs to. And of course, we shouldn’t forget that his challenge is much more substantial than California’s – after all, dealing with drug-related criminals, homeless felons and petty thieves is naught when compared to having to allocate cell space for hoards of dissident miserables.

Anyway, I say we try and organize educational expeditions to Zimbabwe for the rapid resolution of the prison crisis.

Free the Corporation!
9/10/2009 9:32:26 PM
I am dumbfounded by solicitor general Elena Kagan argument that was intended to shoot down the idea that campaign finance laws impinge upon the corporations 1st amendment rights.
"other people's money" is what is being used according to Kagan, which it seems to me stands in stark opposition with the idea that the fiduciary is the legal clone of the beneficiary.
It's funny to see how flexible these ideas are.
[this should not to be taken as suggesting that I am in some sense supportive of the absure idea of protecting the corporations right to freely express ITself. Obviously, we are stressing the notion of a legal person judge a tad too much]
Rosh Hashan Brunch
9/9/2009 11:20:12 PM
The hitch-hiker's guide to Judaism -

I seriously thought that all these nice jews were doing a Rosh Hashana breakfast instead of Rosh Hashana dinner. It's a good thing Y explained that we aren't expected to arrive early for this kind of break-fast.

Next year I'm having a Rosh Hashana brunch!
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